Notes, reports and other outputs from three programs dedicated to the exploration of three specific equipments discarded by the film industry…

• Debrie contact printer : restoration of this french-made machine from the 60's capable of copying B&W 35mm film to 16mm and 16mm to 16mm, with the help Franco Bosco and Rafael Marques, from ANIM, the laboratory of Cinemateca Portugesa (Lisbon, Pt). Followed by a residency by Els van Riel and several workshops.

• Crass animation stand : setting up a fully functioning animation table with the option of shooting on either 16, super 16 or 35mm, plus the possibility of using rear projection on 16mm, plus the making of an optical printing bench that allows 16mm optical printing and blow ups from 16mm to 35mm. All this with the help of Lutz Garmsen. Report from the pilot residency by Andrew Kim, who used the Crass animation stand to extend previous experiments with interference patterns, or the “Moiré effect”.

• Oxberry optical printer : installation and exploration of this film printers used in the cinema industry to create special effects on 16m and 35mm film.

Outputs from the Handmade emulsion primitive colour Seminar, one week of practical research in the lab of WORM Filmwerkplaats in Rotterdam.

With: 
Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez (LaborBerlin, DE),
Robert Schaller (Handmade Film Institute, USA) ,
Josh Lewis (Negativland, USA),
Kevin Rice (Process Reversal, USA),
Alex MacKenzie (Iris Film Collective, CAN),
Lindsay McIntyre (CAN), Esther Urlus (Filmwerkplaats, NL) 
Chloe Reyes (EPC, USA), 
Maxime Fuhrer (LABO BXL, B), 
Noélie Martin ( l'Abominable, FR).

• Autochrome process try-out : recipes and details about experiments based on the direct positive colour photography process invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903.

• Mini Madbox : how to make an entry level emulsion coating system aimed at providing a readily available and easy-to-use solution for filmmakers and educators interested in experimenting with emulsion making on 8mm, 16mm and 35mm. By Kevin Rice.

• Alternative emulsions workshop by Esther Urlus : notes and recipes from experiments with Cyanotype and Van Dyke brown emulsions, made at Mire's lab.

Two major events bringing together film enthusiasts and new audiences.

• BAINS ARGENTIQUES ~ Nantes's Film labs meeting : recordings, notes, pictures of the discussions, workshops and other activities done during the film labs meeting.

• FILM IN THE PRESENT TENSE : documentation made during the symposium hosted by LaborBerlin as the last event of RE MI.

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